Program

Programs for individual days:

• Monday, 11 December 1995
• Tuesday, 12 December 1995
• Wednesday, 13 December 1995
• Thursday, 14 December 1995

Note: This program is subject to change.

Tuesday, 12 December 1995

8:30 - 10:00 a.m.

Opening Plenary Session

Copley Marriott

10:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Coffee

Copley Marriott - Third Floor

10:30 - 12:00 noon

General Sessions

12:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch

Hynes Center

2:00 - 3:30 p.m.

General Sessions

3:30 - 4:00 p.m.

Tea

Exhibit Hall

4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

General Session

5:00 - 6:30 p.m.

Poster Sessions

Copley Marriott - Third Floor Atrium Lounge

6:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Reception

Copley Marriott - Third Floor

7:30 -10:00 p.m.

Banquet

Copley Marriott Grand Ballroom

Wednesday, 13 December 1995

8:30 - 10:00 a.m.

General Sessions

Salon G

10:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Coffee

Copley Marriott - Third Floor

10:30 - 12:00 noon

General Sessions

Salon G

12:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch

Hynes Center

2:00 - 3:30 p.m.

General Sessions

Salon G

3:30 - 4:00 p.m.

Tea

Exhibit Hall

4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Closing Plenary Session

Copley Marriott Grand Ballroom

Tuesday, 12 December 1995

Opening Plenary Session: 8:30 - 10:00a.m.

Welcome Address
Conference Co-chairs, Albert Vezza and Ira Goldstein

There's No Bits Like Show Bits
Bran Ferren, Imagineering, VP, Disney Corp.

Coffee: 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. (Copley Marriott, Third Floor)

General Sessions: 10:30 - 12:00 noon
(Marriott Salons E, F, G and Hynes Center Rooms 302, 304, 306)

P00 - Survey

Results from the Third WWW User Survey
James E. Pitkow, Colleen M. Kehoe

IP1 - Invited Presentation (immediately following P00)

Get Connected
John Patrick, Vice President, IBM Internet Applications

P01 - Collaborative Systems

The Open Meeting: A Web-Based System for Conferencing and Collaboration
Roger Hurwitz, John Mallery

Using Versioning to Provide Collaboration on the WWW
Fabio Vitali, David G. Durand

Group Asynchronous Browsing on the World Wide Web
Kent Wittenburg, Duco Das, Will Hill, Larry SBreakd

Supporting Collaborative Information Sharing with the WWW: The BSCW Shared Workspace System
Richard Bentley, Thilo Horstmann, Klaas Sikkel, Jonathan Trevor

P02 - Objects on W3

A Web of Distributed Objects
Owen Rees, Nigel Edwards, Mark Madsen, Mike Beasley, Ashley McClenaghan

W3Objects: Bringing Object-Oriented Technology to the Web
David Ingham, Mark Little, Steve Caughey, Santosh Shrivastava

P03 - Caching (immediately following P02)

Making World Wide Web Caching Servers Cooperate
Radhika Malpani, Jacob Lorch, David Berger

Caching Proxies: Limitations and Potentials
Marc Abrams, Charles R. Standridge, Ghaleb Abdulla, Stephen Williams, Edward A. Fox

P04 - Resource Discovery

IAFA Templates in Use as Internet Metadata
Dave Beckett

A World Wide Web Resource Discovery System
Budi Yuwono, Savio L. Lam, Jerry H. Ying, Dik L. Lee

The Krakatoa Chronicle: An Interactive, Personalized Newspaper on the Web
Tomonari Kamba, Krishna Bharat, Michael C. Albers

Web Map: Concept Mapping on the Web
Brian R. Gaines, Mildred L. G. Shaw

P05 - Tools for Building Webs Over Databases

SWOOP: An Application Generator for ORACLE WWW Systems
Andrew Hunter, Ian Ferguson, Steven Hedges

Multi-Service Search and Comparison Using the MetaCrawler
Erik Selberg, Oren Etzioni

DB: Browsing Object-Oriented Databases Over the Web
C. Varela, D. Nekhayev, P. Chandrasekharan, C. Krishnan, V. Govindan, D. Modgil, S. Siddiqui, D. Lebedenko, M. Winslett

P06 - W3 Applied to Education

Toward a New Educational Environment
Ming-Chih Lai, Bih-Horng Chen, Shyan-Ming Yuan

CyberProf: An Intelligent Human-Computer Interface for Asynchronous Wide Area Training and Breakching
Alfred W. Hubler, Andrew M. Assad

A Modular Training System for Education in the WWW Environment
U. Schroeder, B. Tritsch, A. Krjerriem-Jasnoch

A WWW Learning Environment for Mathematics
Jari Multisilta, Kostadin Antchev, Markku Luhtalahti, Seppo Pohjolainen, Kari Syomela

Lunch: 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. (Hynes Center)

Invited Presentation

Converging On-line and Internet Worlds
Edward A. Bennett, President & CEO, Prodigy Services Co.

General Sessions: 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.

IP2, IP3 - Invited Presentations

Navigating the Information Superhighway Using Speech
Victor Zue and David Goddeau, MIT-Laboratory for Computer Science

Best Paper: Asia/Pacific WWW Conference, Sydney, Australia 1995

A Generic Map Interface to Query Geographical Information Using the World Wide Web
David Crossley, Tony Boston
Environmental Resources Information Network, Australia

PAN1 - Knowledge Representation and the Web

How Can We Turn Information on the Web into Knowledge We Can Use?

PAN2 - Future of Object Technology on the Web

How Can Object Technology Be Applied to the World Wide Web

P07 - W3 Software Design Techniques

WWW Meets Linda: Linda for Global WWW-Based Transaction
Werner J. Schoenfeldinger

Interface-Parasite Gateways
Robert A. Barta, Manfred Hauswirth

IS3 - Best Paper: WWW National Conference 1995, Portugal (immediately following P07)

Classifying Internet Objects
F. Luís Neves, José N. Oliveira
Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

PAN3 - Workshop Reports

Summary Reports of Monday Workshops

Web Access to Legacy Data
Leon Shklar, Kshitij Shah

Design and Manufacturing on the Web
Ken Meltsner, Paul Losleben

WWW for Civic Networking by Local Authorities
Mirko Labbri, Todd Marinoff

Web Accessibility for the Disabled
Michael G. Paciello

PAN4 - WWW and Education

What are the Real Benefits of Putting K-12 Classes on the Web?

3:30 - 4:00 p.m. - Refreshment Break

General Session: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

IP4 - Invited Presentation

Five Years On
Tim Berners-Lee, MIT-Laboratory for Computer Science, and Director of W3C

Birds of a Feather Sessions will occur in Other Rooms from 4 to 5 PM

Poster Sessions: 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. (Copley Marriott Third Floor Atrium Lounge)

Reception: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. (Reception - Copley Marriott Third Floor)

Banquet: 7:30 -10:00 p.m. (Copley Marriott Grand Ballroom)

Wednesday, 13 December 1995

General Sessions: 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.

IF1 - Cool or Content: Design

What Does it Take to Design a Great Web Site?

P08 - Media: Short Summary Presentations on New Content Types

Not Just Decoration: Quality Graphics for the Web
Chris Lilly

Bringing Music to the Web
Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Anton Eliëns

Polymap: A Versatile Client-Side Image Map for the Web
Cheong S. Ang, Michael D. Doyle, Peter Brantley

Translating ISO 12083 Mathematical Markup for Electronic Documents
Roger Thompson, Keith Shafer

Real Time-Video and Audio in the World Wide Web
Zhigang Chen, See-Mong Tan, Roy H. Campbell, Yongcheng Li

Lessons for the World Wide Web from the Text Encoding Initiative
David T. Barnard, Lou Burnard, Steven J. DeRose, David G. Durand, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen

P09 - Mobile Code

Omniware: A Universal Substrate for Web Programming
Steve Lucco, Oliver Sharp, Robert Wahbe

Low Level Security in Java
Frank Yellin

P10 - Security (immediately following P09)

CCI-Based Web Security: A Design Using PGP
Judson D. Weeks, Adam Cain, Briand Sanderson

Securing the World Wide Web: Smart Tokens and Their Implementation
Michael F. Jones, Bruce Schneier

SS2 - Special Session - W3C Forum

An Update of W3C Standards and Development Strategies

P11 - Application Building Tools

Application-Specific Proxy Servers as HTTP Stream Transducers
Charles Brooks, Murray S. Mazer, Scott Meeks, Jim Miller

DynaWeb: Integrating Large SGML Repositories and the WWW
Gavin Thomas Nicol

RMC: A Tool to Design WWW Applications
Alicia Díaz, Tomás Isakowitz, Vanesa Maiorana, Gabriel Gilabert

Programming the Web: An Application-Oriented Language for Hypermedia Service Programming
David A. Ladd, Christopher Ramming

IF2 - Business to Business

How Does Electronic Commerce Serve Business-to-Business Customers?

Coffee: 10:00 - 10:30 a.m.

General Sessions: 10:30 - 12:00 noon

IP5, IP6 - Invited Presentations

Future of Imaging on the Web
Christopher Dobbs, Eastman Kodak Co.

How Internet Technology Drives New Business Models
Steve Fink, Marketing Development Manager, Internet Business Group, Digital

P12 - Client-Side Techniques

Introducing Candelweb and Å (awe), Bringing Animation Power to the World Wide Web
Kjell Øystein Arisland, Svein Arne Johansen, Gunnar Rønning

Local Control over Filtered WWW Access
Brenda S. Baker, Eric Grosse

Multi-Head Multi-Tail Mosaic
Brian C. Ladd, Michael V. Capps, P. David Stotts, Rick Furuta

Mobile GUI on the Web
Daniel Dardailler

Using Graphic History in Browsing the WWW
Eric Z. Ayers, John T. Stasko

P13 - Payment

Scalable, Secure, Cash Payment for WWW Resources with the PayMe Protocol Set
Michael Peirce, Donal O'Mahony

The Millicent Protocol for Inexpensive Electronic Commerce
Steve Glassman, Mark Manasse, Martín Abadi, Paul Gauthier, Patrick Sobalvarro

P14 - Hypertext and Linking

Linking in a Global Information Architecture
Karen R. Sollins, Jeffrey R. Van Dyke

Commercial Hypertext Publishing: Electronic Books Using Trails and the Author-Publishing-Reader Model
Leslie D. Cuff

Ingrid: A Self-Configuring Information Navigation Infrastructure
Paul Francis, Takashi Kambayashi, Shin-ya Sato, Susumu Shimizu

P16 - Authoring Tools

A Schema-Based Approach to HTML Authoring
Marcus Kesseler

Rules for Extending a WWW Client: The Symposia API
Jean Paoli

The Distributed Link Service: A Tool for Publishers, Authors, and Readers
Leslie Carr, David De Roure, Wendy Hall, Gary Hill

Structured Cooperative Authoring on the World Wide Web
Dominique Decouchant, Vincent Quint, Manuel Romero Salcedo

The Boomerang White Paper: A Page As You Like It
Curtis E. Dyreson, Anthony M. Sloane

PAN5 - Government Uses of the Web

How are Government Agencies Using the Web Effectively to Reach Citizens?

Lunch: 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. (Hynes Center)

Invited Presentation

Web of the Future
Robert W. Lucky, Corporate Vice President of Applied Research, Bellcore

General Sessions: 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.

IP7, IP8 - Invited Presentations

Programming Windows on the Internet
Thomas Reardon, Chris Jones, J. Allard, Microsoft Corporation

The New Computing Paradigm
Bill Joy, Cofounder and Vice President of Research, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

PAN6 - Visualizing the Web

Can a Visualization of Web Space Make it Easier for Users to Navigate?

IF3 - Creating Content for the Web

P16 - Agents

An HTTP-Based Infrastructure for Mobile Agents
Anselm Lingnau, Oswald Drobnik, Peter Doemel

Jasper: Communicating Information Agents for WWW
John Davies, Richard Weeks, Mike Revett

Constellation: A Web-Based Design Framework for Developing Network Applications
Nino Vidovic, Dalibor F. Vrsalovic

PAN7 - Rating Content on the Web

Does the Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) Preserve Openness Yet Provide Ample Protection?
Jim Kinsella, Time Warner
Paul Resnick, AT&T
Steve Balkam, Recreational Software Advisory Council
Danny Weitzner, Center for Democracy and Technology

P17 - Novel Applications for W3

A World Wide Web Telerobotic Remote Environment Browser
Eric Paulos, John Canny

Data Transport Within the Distributed Oceanographic Data System
James Gallagher, George Milkowski

Requirements for Taking Applications Beyond the Enterprise
Graeme Port, Clifford Heath, Tim Segall, Phillip Merrick

Break: 3:30 - 4:00 p.m.

Closing Plenary Session: 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. (Copley Marriott Grand Ballroom)

Awards Ceremony
Awards Co-chairs: Robert Cailliau, CERN and Yuri Rubinsky, Softquad, Inc.

WWW4-Boston Wrapup and Keynote
Robert Metcalfe, VP, Advanced Technology, International Data Group

WWW5-Paris, May 6-11, 1996
Conference Chair, Jean-François Abramatic

Closing Remarks
Conference Co-chairs, Albert Vezza and Ira Goldstein